As an acknowledged global thought leader on the transition to a low-carbon economy, Michael is frequently quoted in the press an often asked to comment on TV, Radio or via Podcasts. On this page you will find links to notable media coverage of Michael and his views.

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UnHerd: Will we ever take the Tube again?

6 May 2020

The Pandemic has devastated public transport. Here’s how cities could get moving.

CityAM: TfL needs a bailout, but nobody should give the Mayor a blank cheque

5 May 2020

As Londoners start to look forward to the end of the lockdown, TfL is in need of a bailout. Otherwise, according to Sadiq Khan, it will run out of cash. On the face of it, there’s nothing remarkable about TfL needing …

The Energy Transition Show Podcast – Part 2 of 2

18 March 2020

This episode is part two of the three-hour conversation. Part one was featured in Episode #116. Together, these two episodes make Part 12 of The Energy Transition Show’s mini-series on climate science.

The Energy Transition Show Podcast – Part 1 of 2

4 March 2020

This episode is part one of a THREE-hour conversation. Part two will be featured in Episode 117. Together, those two episodes make Part 12 of The Energy Transition Show’s mini-series on climate science.

In this episode: how a forward-looking energy expert, Michael Liebreich, saw the macrotrends in cleantech before most utilities, oil companies and investors — and then convinced them it would transform their business.

RenewEconomy Energy Insiders Podcast: Australia should be world leader in “base-cost” renewables

27 November 2019

In this fascinating interview, Michael Liebreich discusses Australia’s huge opportunity and wonders why it is not already leading the world. It may be in rooftop solar, but in overall system change Liebriech says it i…

ecogeneration: ‘Reach 80% renewables? Easy. 100%? Much harder…’

21 November 2019

Never mind the climate, it’s the antipathy between clean energy believers and non-believers that is really heating up. But the world we inherit will be the world we have made, so instead of arguing about it Michael Li…

The Fifth State: How do you put a rocket under the push to transition Australia’s economy and leading corporates to renewable energy?

21 November 2019

First, you get Atlassian boss Mike Cannon-Brookes on stage at his Sydney headquarters, plus Michael Liebreich who founded Bloomberg New Energy Finance, plus outfits like Ikea and Unilever. You draw in audience members…

DNV GL Talks Energy – Face the Facts Podcast ‘The Road to Resilience’

17 March 2019

On July 17th Michael was invited to create a podcast for DNV GL Talks Energy – Face the Facts series entitled ‘The Road to Resilience’. In this latest episode of Face the Facts, Michael shares his opinion and insight…

The Burning Question

In 2018 the Australian government chased its energy tail. Here’s a more hopeful story

31 January 2019

It is easy to feel deflated after another UN Climate Summit failed to deliver the ambitious pledges that are required, but read between the lines and the signals for business leaders are hugely encouraging

The Daily Caller

The positive signal from COP24 is clear, and businesses are responding

17 December 2018

It is easy to feel deflated after another UN Climate Summit failed to deliver the ambitious pledges that are required, but read between the lines and the signals for business leaders are hugely encouraging

RWE sees no way past compensation for German coal exit

Inflection Points & True Leadership In The EV Revolution

19 November 2018

Zach interviewed Michael Liebreich, the founder of Bloomberg New Energy Finance, right after that projection. Lieberich highlighted that it was completely insane that they would project that the same price decrease we…

Imagine if there was only one country that was very skilled in energy (Translated

26 September 2018

In 2040, one third of the world’s energy consumption will come from the sun and wind, according to renewed bishop Michael Liebreich. But it is not enough. – It will take 332 years before electricity is responsible for…

Had They Bet On Nuclear, Not Renewables, Germany & California Would Already Have 100% Clean Power

26 September 2018

In 2040, one third of the world’s energy consumption will come from the sun and wind, according to renewed bishop Michael Liebreich. But it is not enough. – It will take 332 years before electricity is responsible for…

The Age Of Electrification Has Arrived

26 September 2018

Electric vehicles continue to gain market share at an accelerating rate, but electrification could go even further, expanding into the realm of commercial trucking, marine travel and even to airplanes.

Why there will always be a place for the office jerk

26 July 2018

One of the most difficult people I ever worked with was a very clever newspaper journalist with a stunning knack for getting scoops.One of the most difficult people I ever worked with was a very clever newspaper journ…

One of the highlights took place on the eve of the exhibition — the Conference Opening keynote speech by Michael Liebreich, founder of Bloomberg New Energy Finance, UK, which offered the large audience an in-depth and…

Social investors see the light on clean energy for the poor

26 May 2018

LISBON/BARCELONA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – After learning that three babies died in a government hospital in the Sierra Leone city of Bo last November when a power cut switched off machinery keeping them alive, L…

Video – Energy Disruptors Unite 2018

When Power is Life or Death

26 April 2018

The founder of Bloomberg New Energy Finance, Michael Liebreich, recently launched the Project Bo crowdsourcing campaign, triggered when he saw a tweet last year from Dr Niall Conroy of University College Dublin, who w…

Fossil fuel companies will be surpassed by renewable energy resources if they don’t make new investments

26 April 2018

For the past hundred years, fossil fuels have dominated the energy industry creating a juggernaut in Big Oil. However, the increased popularity of renewable energy indicates that if fossil fuel companies want to keep …

Solar Energy’s Dropping Costs Fuels Green Energy Investments

26 April 2018

For the past hundred years, fossil fuels have dominated the energy industry creating a juggernaut in Big Oil. However, the increased popularity of renewable energy indicates that if fossil fuel companies want to keep …

Heating, Hydrogen And Efficient Homes Will Be The Keys To ‘Deep Decarbonization’

26 March 2018

Renewable energy is now indisputably part of the mainstream electricity sector – part of what Michael Liebreich, the founder of Bloomberg New Energy Finance, calls “the new orthodoxy of the Three-Third World”.

On November 19, 2017 three babies at the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at the Government Hospital in the city of Bo, Sierra Leone, died when a power shortage stopped their oxygen supply. Project Bo was established to e…

Turnbull’s power play: Snowy 2.0 vs battery storage

6 February 2018

Prime minister Malcolm Turnbull has some front. On Monday, in the first Question Time of the parliamentary year, Turnbull was asked about the Greens’ proposal to buy back the grid and put a cap on returns to reduce pr…

Saudi Arabia makes up for lost time in clean energy race

26 January 2018

LONDON: When Saudi Arabia announced its plan to embark on a program of renewable energy construction last year, the largest renewable energy project in the Kingdom was Saudi Aramco’s solar car park, according to Micha…

Michael Liebreich to join Ignite Power Advisory Board

Why a driverless future will not arrive until 2025

16 January 2018

Bloomberg New Energy Finance founder and Transport for London board member Michael Liebreich has told tahawultech.com why he believes a world of autonomous cars is currently a distant reality that must overcome urban …

The 3 ways energy costs are crunching self-funded retirees: CIO

11 November 2017

Speaking in September, the founder of Bloomberg New Energy Finance, Michael Liebreich said “many hundreds of billions” of investors’ dollars have been squandered due to investment decisions led by poor energy forecast…

The seven megatrends that could beat global warming: ‘There is reason for hope’

8 November 2017

Until recently the battle to avert catastrophic climate change – floods, droughts, famine, mass migrations – seemed to be lost. But with the tipping point just years away, the tide is finally turning, thanks to innova…

Climate peace in our time?

27 October 2017

On October 17, Australia’s federal government announced the bones of a new energy policy – the National Energy Guarantee – which seeks to (i) ensure reliability in the National Electricity Market and (ii) provide a cr…

Coalition wrestles with internal demons on clean energy target

9 October 2017

Remember Gollum from Lord of the Rings? The Australian federal government is doing a pretty good impersonation of the twisted fictional character, as it wrestles with its own internal demons in trying to put together …

IEA: Renewable electricity set to grow 40% globally by 2022

Report shows solar, wind on the march as China surges

4 October 2017

A new International Energy Agency forecast this morning projects that worldwide renewable energy capacity will grow by another 43 percent over the next five years amid surging solar increases in China and other factors.

Hyperloops Are To HSR As Hydrogen-Fuel-Cell Cars Are To Battery-Electric Cars

1 October 2017

Michael Liebreich’s slidedeck for the recent BNEF Summit was, to use Zachary’s words, epic. I love his presentations too, and not just because the first girl I asked to marry me was a Liebreich. (No relation to Michae…

Michael Liebreich State of the Industry Keynote at BNEF EMEA Summit 2017 (Video)

Faulty energy forecasts are costing investors ‘hundreds of billions’

29 September 2017

Faulty energy forecasts are costing investors ‘hundreds of billions’Since September 2011, “many hundreds of billions” of investors’ dollars have been squandered due to investment decisions led by poor forecasts, an en…

Stunning tipping points mean coal will never be great again

Nobody is going to make coal great again, says Bloomberg New Energy Finance founder

21 September 2017

With new technologies hitting the markets every day, renewables are becoming cheaper far faster than anyone anticipated. This trend puts clean energy in investors’ cross-hairs and spells the end of coal as the mainsta…

Tipping point for clean energy as ‘monster’ turbines arrive

20 September 2017

The cost of renewables is plunging faster than forecasters anticipated just a few years ago as technologies like gigantic wind turbines arrive on the market. That’s the conclusion of Bloomberg New Energy Finance, who…

Tesla recently announced delivery of the first 30 production units of its Model 3 electric vehicle (EV). EV technology has generated plenty of buzz in the electric utility industry over the past decade and, with last …

The EV bandwagon is accelerating, but is it unstoppable?

2 August 2017

So there you have it: first Norway and the Netherlands, then France and now the U.K. have all stated their intent to phase out conventional petrol and diesel cars once and for all. For those who have been following th…

Solar and wind tipping points: One down and one to go

28 June 2017

In the last 10 days, I have been travelling around North America presenting to senior executives from energy companies, policy-makers and investors a long-term forecast for the world’s electricity system that would ha…

Renewable Energy Investing in the Age of Fossil Fuel Extinction

19 June 2017

Liebreich is the founder of Bloomberg’s New Energy Finance, and his analysis of the clean energy industry is the most accurate you can find. So every year, when the latest New Energy Finance “New Energy Outlook” is re…

Presentation: Michael Liebreich’s Keynote Speech at BNEF Summit 2016

Clean energy guru sees more corporate renewables purchases

20 January 2016

It’s the time of year for 2016 predictions, and Bloomberg New Energy Finance’s Chairman of the Advisory Board, Michael Liebreich, anticipates corporations will continue their trend toward directly sourcing renewable e…

Podcast: Climate Countdown

5 December 2015

As the world gathers in Paris (COP21) to hammer out measures which all hope will slow the rise in global temperatures, In the Balance is in the city to debate the role of big business and big finance in what happens.

Interview – A place in the sun

4 August 2015

This progress is not going to stop. Solar power is now seeing costs in the 6 to 8 cents/kWh range for good projects, before any subsidies. The cheapest we have seen is 5.84 cents/kWh on a project announced this year i…

Michael Liebreich wins British Renewables Energy Judges Award 2015

19 June 2015

Michael Liebreich was awarded the most prestigious accolade, the British Renewable Energy Judges Award 2015, an award specifically created by the judging panel to recognise outstanding contribution to renewables.

Coal and China: Bad, but Maybe not as Bad as you Think

The New Fossil-Fuel Glut: Less Glutty than you Think

Renewables Will Widen Investor Enthusiasm

1 June 2012

“Big wind farms in breezy locations such as the Great Plains in the US are now completely competitive with new coal-fired power stations.” By 2016, “the average wind farm in the US won’t need a subsidy at all”.

If this interview seems extraordinarily frank, it’s because I thought it was a background briefing and the journo didn’t tell me he was recording. It is basically a transcript of what I said in a long telephone conver…

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